Welcome to a generous selection of articles from DAWN's Weekly Sci-Tech World.
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The art of extracting strategic information
 TO employ a highly hackneyed expression, “information is the key to success.” Today, as information technology is making an incursion in our lives, Corporations world-wide are accumulating mountains of data. Now,...
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Manhunt: Hannibal’s bloody tale
 SILENCE of the Lambs is one of the scariest movies I have ever seen. The whole movie has this gritty atmosphere that makes your skin crawl every time you see it....
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Webwatch
 THE American Museum of Natural History invites you to take a tour of the Genomic Revolution. On this info-packed virtual site you will learn how our identity as a species is being redefined by scientific advances....
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I-Terms
LOCAL BUS: A data bus that connects directly, or almost directly, to the microprocessor. Although local buses can support only a few devices, they provide very fast throughput. Modern PCs include...
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Biogenetics and the genome project
LIFE cannot be defined by any scientific means present at this time on the planet; however, the basis of human life, our construction and character, has been shown by science to...
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Nuclear adventure: the next evolutionary step in space exploration
 SPACE exploration has been man’s aspiration since time immemorial and the quest for it has enabled him to come up with advanced energy technologies led on by the National Aeronautics and...
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ICTP: the legacy of a Pakistani Nobel laureate
 THOUGH the late Professor Abdus Salam is well known in Pakistan for having won the Nobel Prize in 1979 and receiving it in sherwani, shalwar and kulah at the glittering Stockholm...
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Are we sacrificing it all at the altar of science?
 SCIENCE is considered a method of discovery in which we search for clear, ambiguous answers. Every day it brings new insights into the world of computing, communications, and biotechnology that change...
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China’s ‘people’s war’ against pornography on internet
CHINA has launched a “people’s war” against pornography on internet, giving websites a deadline until September to rid themselves of indecent content, state media said....
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Hawking ‘solves’ black hole paradox
 BLACK holes may not be quite so terminally destructive after all, according to cosmologist Stephen Hawking....
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GIK Institute and AJK university sign MoU
THE Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology and University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to promote cooperation between the two institutes...
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Moot on Indus delta concludes
ALL big projects and schemes, such as coastal highway and coconut and shrimp farming should be commissioned only after carrying out comprehensive environment studies to assess their impact on ecology mainly...
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Digital sound in high definition
DIGITAL sound in high definition is making waves. High-definition audio, or HD audio, the new formats are doing for music what high-definition TV is doing for television, recording it in higher...
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Byteback
 OUTLOOK Express for webmail Please tell me how to configure Outlook Express for accessing webmail accounts such as Yahoo! and Hotmail. I tried Yahoo’s mail address in POP3 but it doesn’t seem to work? Please help...
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ITeaser
THINK your IT knowledge is really good? Rack your brain with this I-Teaser and find out for sure:...
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Cool gadgets
 JAPAN’S mobile concern NTT DoComo unveils the world’ first dual network 3G mobile phone handset “N900iL”, produced by Japan’s electronics giant NEC, which makes it possible to run usual 3G mobile phone network and to connect with wireless...
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